What do Applied Materials, Boeing, Coach, Ford, Intel, McDonald’s, Nike and Pfizer all have in common? Besides being in the S&P 500, they all do a lot of business outside the U.S. In fact, nearly half the firms in the S&P 500 get 46% of their sales and half their p...

It’s an odd time here in the U.S. Why? Conflicting signals from the American populace. It seems it’s sunny skies and stormy weather at the same time! On one hand, our economy seems to be picking up. After all, the Consumer Confidence Index recently climbed to 94.5...

This story monopolized the headlines globally, every time you turned on television, picked up the paper or looked to the internet, “Scotland Votes to Leave the UK.”

There have been some major concerns raised with Scotland attempting to leave the UK. After all, it’s...

Another recent report that I read said that 109.6 million Americans which translates to 35.4% of the population, live in households that receive benefits from one or more federally-funded Means-tested programs – also known as welfare. In 2012, there were 103 millio...

I get a lot of reports from economists, and one that continues to haunt me is the August Unemployment Report provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was a pretty big disappointment! According to the August Unemployment Report, the percentage of Americans wor...